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on Thursday October 27 2016, @04:29PM
from the in-Soviet-Russia-products-threaten-you dept.
from the in-Soviet-Russia-products-threaten-you dept.
It follows a product recall from the Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou after its web cameras were used in a massive web attack last week.
The attack knocked out sites such as Reddit, Twitter, Paypal and Spotify.
The Chinese government blamed customers for not changing their passwords.
Its legal warning was added to an online statement from the company Xiongmai, in which the firm said that it would recall products, mainly webcams, following the attack but denied that its devices made up the majority of the botnet used to launch it.
You will like Chinese products, or else.
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C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @01:24AM
Just because some conspiracies are true doesn't make all conspiracy theories true.
This one does not pass the laugh test because its so egregious. We know how the NSA likes to backdoor hardware and they certainly don't do it like this. These are the guys who deliberately weakened a random number generator algorithm to make it feasible to crack encryption that happens to use that RNG. That's subtle. This? Leaving hardcoded passwords for any dumbfuck to find? That's just the result of ultra-thin margins.